Exelon Utilities Ready for Summer Heat and Storms

Significant company investments in smart grid and storm-hardening
will help prevent outages for more than 22 million people

June 14, 2016 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With forecasts calling for a higher number of severe storms this summer,
Exelon’s six utilities have taken action to prepare, implementing a
comprehensive and coordinated plan to be ready for severe storms and
high temperatures. All of the Exelon utilities have invested
substantially in smart grid and storm-hardening programs to help prevent
power outages and restore service faster when they do occur, in addition
to sharing best practices and resources across the company.

“Our customers depend on us to provide power safely and reliably, and we
are always working to improve the service we provide through our
utilities,” said Denis O’Brien, senior executive vice president, Exelon,
and CEO, Exelon Utilities. “Now, with the completion of the Pepco
Holdings merger, we have a larger, more diverse team with more
knowledge, best practices and resources to share. We will leverage our
combined strengths to further improve storm response for our customers.”

Exelon’s six utilities -- Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva
Power, PECO and Pepco -- deliver electricity and natural gas to
approximately 22 million people in seven states, including the major
metro centers of Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.
Exelon’s utilities have invested substantially in recent years to
upgrade substations, wires and poles, as well as deploy 7.4 million
smart meters and other advanced technologies across their service areas.
Over the next five years, Exelon will invest an additional $25 billion
at its six utilities to continue to strengthen the power grid and
improve service to customers.

Also included in Exelon’s investments are innovative new technologies
that provide benefits for customers. Digital sensors, smart switches and
software installed at each utility can automatically detect power
outages and reroute power to restore service to customers faster. The
technology also helps Exelon’s utilities better pinpoint the source of
power outages so they can fix problems faster and more efficiently. In
addition, mobile apps, social media and other technologies provide
customers with up-to-date information about the location and cause of
outages, and the expected restoration time.

In addition to storm hardening, the six Exelon utilities also prepare
for summer by conducting emergency response drills to test processes and
systems. Many such drills are closely coordinated with local police,
fire and other emergency management officials.

Exelon utilities are among the nation’s best for reliability
performance. Now, with the completion of the Pepco Holdings merger,
Exelon utilities facing severe weather can draw on resources from sister
utilities in Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Washington, D.C.

The six Exelon utilities together comprise the nation’s largest utility
company by customer count.

Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), now including the Pepco Holdings
utilities, is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with
2015 revenues of approximately $34.5 billion. Headquartered in Chicago,
Exelon does business in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.
Exelon is one of the largest competitive U.S. power generators, with
more than 32,700 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the
nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. The company’s
Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to
approximately 2 million residential, public sector and business
customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100. Exelon’s
six utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to approximately 10
million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois,
Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City
Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries.
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